The Many Meanings of ‘Quality’ in Healthcare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by: Dr Deborah Swinglehurst
Collection published: 23 April 2015
Last updated: 3 July 2015
Last updated: 3 July 2015
- RESEARCH ARTICLE
Clinical realism: a new literary genre and a potential tool for encouraging empathy in medical students
Empathy has been re-discovered as a desirable quality in doctors. A number of approaches using the medical humanities have been advocated to teach empathy to medical students. This paper describes a new approa...BMC Medical Education 2015 15:112Published on: 3 July 2015 - EDITORIAL
Confronting the quality paradox: towards new characterisations of ‘quality’ in contemporary healthcare
This editorial introduces the special Biomed Central cross-journal collection The Many Meanings of ‘Quality’ in Healthcare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, setting out the context for the development of the colle...BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:240Published on: 19 June 2015 - RESEARCH ARTICLE
Hospital board oversight of quality and safety: a stakeholder analysis exploring the role of trust and intelligence
Hospital boards, those executive members charged with developing appropriate organisational strategies and cultures, have an important role to play in safeguarding the care provided by their organisation. Howe...BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:196Published on: 16 June 2015 - RESEARCH
‘Trust my doctor, trust my pancreas’: trust as an emergent quality of social practice
Growing attention is being paid to the importance of trust, and its corollaries such as mistrust and distrust, in health service and the central place they have in assessments of quality of care. Although init...Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2015 10:9Published on: 11 June 2015 - DEBATE
Using clinical supervision to improve the quality and safety of patient care: a response to Berwick and Francis
After widely publicised investigations into excess patient deaths at Mid Staffordshire hospital the UK government commissioned reports from Robert Francis QC and Professor Don Berwick. Among their recommendati...BMC Medical Education 2015 15:103Published on: 11 June 2015 - DEBATE
The changing landscape of care: does ethics education have a new role to play in health practice?
In the UK, higher education and health care providers share responsibility for educating the workforce. The challenges facing health practice also face health education and as educators we are implicated, by t...BMC Medical Ethics 2015 16:22Published on: 8 May 2015 - DEBATE
Caring for quality of care: symbolic violence and the bureaucracies of audit
This article considers the moral notion of care in the context of Quality of Care discourses. Whilst care has clear normative implications for the delivery of health care it is less clear how Quality of Care, ...BMC Medical Ethics 2015 16:23Published on: 8 May 2015 - DEBATE
Reconsidering ‘ethics’ and ‘quality’ in healthcare research: the case for an iterative ethical paradigm
UK-based research conducted within a healthcare setting generally requires approval from the National Research Ethics Service. Research ethics committees are required to assess a vast range of proposals, diffe...BMC Medical Ethics 2015 16:21Published on: 8 May 2015 - REVIEWPhilosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2015 10:7Published on: 23 April 2015
- COMMENTARY
Making sense of technology adoption in healthcare: meso-level considerations
It has been clear for some time that the development of telecare faces significant problems. Large scale studies and clinical trials seem to suggest that the cost and clinical effectiveness of telecare systems...BMC Medicine 2015 13:92Published on: 23 April 2015 - RESEARCH ARTICLE
Developing patient-centred care: an ethnographic study of patient perceptions and influence on quality improvement
Understanding quality improvement from a patient perspective is important for delivering patient-centred care. Yet the ways patients define quality improvement remains unexplored with patients often excluded f...BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:122Published on: 23 April 2015 - RESEARCH ARTICLE
Caring for the patient, caring for the record: an ethnographic study of ‘back office’ work in upholding quality of care in general practice
The quality of information recorded about patient care is considered key to improving the overall quality, safety and efficiency of patient care. Assigning codes to patients’ records is an important aspect of ...BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:177Published on: 23 April 2015 - RESEARCH ARTICLE
Multiple sclerosis outpatient future groups: improving the quality of participant interaction and ideation tools within service improvement activities
Improving the patient experience is a key focus within the National Health Service. This has led us to consider how health services are experienced, from both staff and patient perspectives. Novel service impr...BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:105Published on: 23 April 2015 - RESEARCH ARTICLE
What is quality in assisted living technology? The ARCHIE framework for effective telehealth and telecare services
We sought to define quality in telehealth and telecare with the aim of improving the proportion of patients who receive appropriate, acceptable and workable technologies and services to support them living wit...BMC Medicine 2015 13:91Published on: 23 April 2015 - DEBATE
Accounting for quality: on the relationship between accounting and quality improvement in healthcare
Accounting-that is, standardized measurement, public reporting, performance evaluation and managerial control-is commonly seen to provide the core infrastructure for quality improvement in healthcare. Yet, acc...BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:178Published on: 23 April 2015 - RESEARCH ARTICLE
Understanding staff perspectives of quality in practice in healthcare
Extensive work has been focussed on developing and analysing different performance and quality measures in health services. However less has been published on how practitioners understand and assess performanc...BMC Health Services Research 2015 15:123Published on: 23 April 2015 - DEBATE
Unmasking quality: exploring meanings of health by doing art
Quality in healthcare has many potential meanings and interpretations. The case has been made for conceptualisations of quality that place more emphasis on describing quality and less on measuring it through s...BMC Family Practice 2015 16:28Published on: 27 February 2015
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